Most devices, like our pedals, utilize a 5-pin MIDI cable, but there are some 7-pin MIDI connections and some devices can communicate with MIDI over USB and other connections. MIDI messages are usually sent across MIDI cables that connect to the MIDI IN and MIDI OUT ports of MIDI compatible devices. Today we will focus on MIDI Program Change to recall and change presets on the pedal. It is important to also remember that MIDI does NOT transmit audio only digital MIDI messages. These messages are sent via the MIDI IN and MIDI OUT ports on compatible devices. There are several different types of MIDI messages that can be sent on up to 16 MIDI Channels. This allows one device to send a MIDI message to another device as a digital signal to pass along real time musical information. If you are not familiar with MIDI, it is a communication language that is used for MIDI equipped hardware to talk to each other.

These can be used to control the pedals from an external MIDI controller that is programmed to send MIDI messages that can change presets and control parameters on the pedal from the controller.

If you have a Timeline, BigSky, or Mobius, you will notice that there are MIDI IN and MIDI OUT ports on the back of your pedal.

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